The Irish defense dominated, special teams fueled an early lead and some late style points, and the Notre Dame offense righted the ship after a shaky start to demolish Pitt. For a second straight game Marcus Freeman's squad found some easy points outside the core phases of the game with 5 takeaways and special teams [...]
Washington continues to look wobbly following the win over Oregon but haven't dropped one since with a couple close calls. The same can't be said for Oklahoma who got rock chalked over the weekend and will need to fight back into the playoff picture. By the way, the first College Football Playoff rankings come out [...]
Sorry for the lack of Mid Major Content, the 18S family grew by one more last Monday. Do not worry, the little one already has gotten the talk from me that we love Notre Dame first, then mid major football second. Without further ado, let's dive into the new top ten. Also Considered: Georgia Southern, [...]
Notre Dame came out with a few mistakes offensively then put some adversity behind them to bury the Pitt Panthers on Saturday afternoon in South Bend. The win moves the Irish to 7-2 in Marcus Freeman's second season with the program while lowly Pittsburgh falls down to 2-6 with top 10 ranked Florida State headed [...]
After a 2-year break the historic rivalry game between Notre Dame and Pittsburgh is back on this weekend live from South Bend. Back in the 2020 meeting, quarterback Kenny Pickett was injured, Pitt gained 162 total yards, and the 42-point Irish win was the 2nd worst defeat of the Pat Narduzzi era. A lot has [...]
Using counting stats, it's tempting to construct the narrative that Notre Dame's massive win over USC was fluky. A 5-0 turnover margin, a special teams touchdown, more total yards for the Trojans and just 255 total yards for the Irish? But as we dive into the numbers, it's clear that Marcus Freeman's team - the [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns as Notre Dame comes off a bye week and prepares to re-start the season this Saturday against Pittsburgh in South Bend. On this week's edition of 5WF we are tackling bowl projections, an OC search, the Heisman race, coaching hot seats, and the top position to grab in the portal that [...]
It was announced just under 5 months ago that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick would be retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic school year and on Friday night October 13th the university announced that president Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C. would also be retiring at the same time. Notre Dame also announced that [...]
After week 7 we have a new no. 1 in the 18S poll thanks to Washington's come-from-behind victory over Oregon. Huskies are superior to Bulldogs in every way so this is okay. Outside of that, the top 15 stayed relatively stable except for USC tumbling quite a bit. You hate to see it. Here's the [...]
It was dark there for a while but Notre Dame heads into a much-needed bye week of rest after a passionate 48-20 victory over rival USC on Saturday night. Optimism and happiness are back! While we spent all week worrying about the Irish offense and the future of the program we saw Al Golden & [...]
It's been seven straight weeks of football and three consecutive games against ranked, undefeated foes but the show must go on. The unstoppable march of history waits for no one, and as much as Notre Dame would probably love an off-week that's just not an option. Following a demoralizing loss to Louisville, the Irish will [...]
Notre Dame's continued offensive struggles created a tight game for most of the visit to Louisville, but as the defense wore down and the Irish offense failed to created much efficiency or explosiveness the Cardinals pulled away late in the second half. The ND offense had an extremely poor performance - just 4.2 yards per [...]
While the weekend was not great for the Irish, we did see some shakeup in the Mid Major conferences worth taking a look into. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Marshall, Ohio, Georgia Southern, Georgia St, Jacksonville St Three And Out Takeaways First Down: Laramie Strikes Again As the title and this header note, Wyoming [...]
Notre Dame had a chance on Saturday to keep hope alive for a strong season, perhaps even an outside shot at the playoffs with USC coming to town next weekend, but had those plans blown to smithereens by a much more hungrier and well prepared Louisville team inside Papa John's Stadium. What a terrible and [...]
I'm going to be honest: I expected to write something like this next week. Next week is ND's 8th straight game, on midterms week, against USC. I expected to get crushed. (I still do.) And then I thought I'd be writing about ND being at a crossroads under Marcus Freeman. Guess it arrived a week [...]
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